9-22-2014: Jeff Snyder taught a workshop in mobile electronic musical instrument building at the Last Weekend in the Catskills, NY. Also performed in Patrick Higgins' piece on the final event of the weekend.

9-6-2014: Jeff Snyder presented on his work at the NYC Music Hackathon, held at the Spotify offices.

8-30-2014: Jeff Snyder performed on modular synthesizer in the Federico Ughi Quartet at the Douglass Street Music Collective in Brooklyn, NY.

8-27-2014: Jeff Snyder finished the musical score to Caroline Jin Key and Kim Kyung-Mook's documentary, Grace Period, which debuted at the DMZ Korean International Documentary Film Festival in September of 2014.

8-8-2014: Jeff Snyder performed with the Federico Ughi Quartet at iBeam.

7-23-2014: The Miz'Ries perform at Cameo, in Brooklyn, NYC. This is the release show for their new tape, Emotional Performance Motorcycle, on Belts and Whistles.

7-1-2014: Jeff Snyder presented two posters at NIME 2014 in London, UK. "The Birl, an electronic wind instruments based on an artificial neural network mapping structure" and "Mobile Devices Marching Band". PLOrk performed a piece as the Mobile Devices Marching Band as part of the conference.

6-1-2014: Jeff Snyder was an artist-in-residence at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, working on building new electronic musical instruments for two weeks among a fascinating group of amazing artists!

5-10-2014: The PLOrk House of Sound happened at Woolworth Hall in Princeton University - an afternoon presentations of electronic music projects and sound installations by students in Jeff Snyder's MUS/COS 314 course.

4-25-2014: On April 25th, the Miz'ries played at the Red Room in Baltimore as part of the release tour for their debut EP, Emotional Performance Motorcycle.

4-23-2014: PLOrk, led by Jeff Snyder and Cenk Ergun, performs at Taplin Auditorium in Princeton University. A video of Machine Yearning, a piece with a giant industrial robot, is included on the videos page on this website.

4-8-2014: Jeff Snyder performs on Analog Synthesizer with the Federico Ughi Quartet at the Silent Barn in Brooklyn, NYC

6-2013: Jeff Snyder plays two set with two different groups in one night! First up, he performs with in a trio with Dan Peck (tuba) and Pascal Niggenkemper (double bass) for the 8:30pm set, and then with the Federico Ughi Quartet for the 10pm set. Muchmore's in Brooklyn, NYC. June 24th, 2013.

6-2013: Jeff Snyder performs with Sideband at the Unplay festival in Brooklyn, NYC. June 11th, 2013. Here's a link to the New York Times review -- "Sideband, a laptop-computer ensemble spun off from the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, offered a paradoxically visceral, endlessly engaging program of inventive pieces by its members" -- Steve Smith, New York Times.

4-2013: The Associated Press does a video news story on the Princeton Laptop Orchestra. Watch it here.

4-2013: Jeff Snyder co-directs PLOrk (the Princeton Laptop Orchestra) in a performance of several new works at Taplin Auditorium. Included on the program is a new composition of Snyder's, Science Fiction Was Wrong About A Lot Of Things, for 6 iPads with portable speakers, two violins, and several iPhones. April 24th, 2013. Quick overview video of the performance here.

3-2013: Jeff Snyder performs with Leila Adu (voice/electronics) and Quinn Collins (turntables) in the debut of the Miz'Ries. At Practice, curated by Sam Hillmer at Zebulon in Brooklyn, NYC. March 18th, 2013.

3-2013: Jeff Snyder performs as a duo with Joshua Modney on violin at Livestock Exchange at Princeton University. March 7th, 2013.

3-2013: Jeff Snyder presents at Dorkbot NYC at Location One on March 6th, 2013.

11-10: CONSUME -an existential taste test in 5 acts-
featured my piece "Percussion II". It was an unusual theatrical
presentation of recent music that involves computers, put on by the
group Music Under the
Influence of Computers, headed by Rick Snow and David Medine and
supported by the CRCA at UC-San
Diego. It's the first time one of my more technically complex
pieces has been presented without my physically being there. Hats off
to those guys!

6-10: Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves played at the Ding
Dong Lounge with Habit Trail. Casey took pictures!

5-10: Jeff Snyder is now Dr. Jeff Snyder. Just received
my doctorate from Columbia University in Music Composition! I've also
got a new job as the Technical Director for the Electronic Music
Studios at Princeton University, and as the Associate Director of the
Princeton Laptop Orchestra, or PLOrk.

3-10: Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves played at CDM's Handmade Music event in
March of 2010. Some video here.

6-09: Jeff Snyder improvised on Serge Modular
Synthesizer with Katherine Young on bassoon and Erica Dicker on violin
at Ibeam on Sunday, June
21st.

6-09: The Draftmasters performed with Dan Iglesia and
Glissando Bin Laden at Monkeytown
on Saturday, June 20th, 7:30 PM. The Draftmasters are Victor Adan and
Jeff Snyder controlling antiquated pen-plotters with the
Manta.

8-09: Cougar
released their 2nd album, Patriot, in August of 2009 on NinjaTune Records. The album
includes a fantastically played cover of Jeff Snyder's song Endings.

5-09: Jeff Snyder's doctoral dissertation piece, Concerning the Nature
of Things, was performed at St. Peter's Church in Chelsea,
NYC. The piece featured 5 of Jeff's invented instruments: the Bass
Manta, the Resophonic Manta, the treble contravielle, the tenor
contravielle, and the birl. The piece was performed by Wet Ink
Ensemble, including Eric Wubbels, Ian Antonio, Erin Lesser, Matt Hough
and Joshua Modney on the instruments, and Kate Soper and Matt Hough on
vocals.

2-09: Jeff Snyder throws a party to celebrate the
completion of a production run of Snyderphonics Mantas. Owen Lake, Jeff Snyder's
electro-country alter ego, performs with his new band, the Tragic
Loves. Read a brief interview here.

1-09: A recording of Jeff Snyder's piece for chamber
ensemble, Traceries, has been released on Carrier
Records. It's available from the Carrier Records website, or
through I-Tunes.

12-08: Jeff Snyder's Percussion III, a piece
for string orchestra and computer-controlled ride cymbals, was
performed by the Knights String
Orchestra on Dec. 7th, 2008, as part of the Bargemusic series. Eric Wubbels
controlled the cymbal part on the Snyderphonics Manta.

11-08: Jeff Snyder's Sunspots, a piece for
Buchla synthesizer and resonating objects, was released on The Language Of, a
compilation of New York City experimental musicians. The CD is
available on I-Tunes, and through QuietDesign Records in
Austin, TX.

10-08: Jeff Snyder's Traceries, for chamber
ensemble, was performed by Wet Ink
as part of their season 10 opener. The performance was recorded, to be
later released as part of the new Wet Ink CD on Carrier
Records.

10-08:The Draftmasters present at Eyebeam Gallery as
part of Untethered.

7-08: Jeff Snyder presents his work to high school
students taking a summer music course at NYU.

5-08:The Draftmasters, Jeff's new band with Victor
Adan, will have it's debut performace on May 8th,
2008, at the Tank. Also inlcuded on the show is a set by
Glissando bin Laden, a duet betwen Brad Garton and Dan Trueman, and
some of Dan Iglesia's red/blue glasses 3D video work. Find out who is
king of the Princeton/Columbia Electronic Music Center
dynasty.

The Draftmasters is poised to become the world's foremost
(read: only) live pen-plotter band. Be there to experience the
beginning of greatness!

4-08: . Jeff Snyder's piece, Vox In Vitro, was
performed by ICE (the
International Contemporary Ensemble), at Merkin Concert Hall, on
Saturday, April 5th. The piece was the first notated work for his new
instruments, including the MEAPbook and treble/tenor Countervielles. It
combines his invented instruments, played by Eric
Wubbels, Jim Altieri, and Matt Hough, with an
8-member ensemble of traditional instruments.

2-08: Jeff Snyder's electronic country EP as Owen Lake was released in February
of 2008. The album features guest musicians Dave Novak (of the
Trailblazers) on guitar and backup vocals, Matt Hough (of Zs and the
Seductive Sprigs) Bob Hoffnar on pedal steel, Anna Stirr and Maria
Sonevetsky (of Debutante Hour) on vocals, and Ryan Smith (of Twin
Thousands, the Silent League, and Stars Like Fleas) on keyboards.

1-08: Jeff Snyder will be presenting his new
instruments at this month's Dorkbot
NYC. Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008, at 7pm. Location One, 26 Greene
Street (between Canal and Grand). Free and open to the public.

12-07:Wet Ink's season opener includes the
debut of Jeff Snyder's trio of instruments, the
MEAPbook/counter-harmonium, and his tenor and treble "string"
instruments. The performance is at Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia
Theater.

11-07:Jeff Snyder's newest
instrument, based on a "string instrument" interface, is finished and
ready for it's first performance on Dec.1st, 2007.

6-07: Jeff Snyder demonstrated the first prototype of
the MEAPbook at
NIME 2007 (New Interfaces for
Musical Expression). Jeff performed a duet for MEAPbook and Serge
Modular Synthesizer with Eric Wubbels on the final night of the
concert. This early MEAPbook is now referred to as the "Soviet"
prototype.

5-07:Gandalf
Gavan's solo exhibition at the Larissa Goldston Gallery includes a
collaboration with Jeff Snyder: Back Rooms and Other Places of
Public Privacy. The exhibit is open from May 12-June 23rd.

Thursday, May 3rd: New Works for Large Ensemble
performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble
works by: Reiko Fueting, Beat Furrer, Phill Niblock, Vincent Raikhel,
Katharine Soper and Jeff Snyder
at New York Quarterly Meeting House

5-07: Jeff Snyder performed his live score to the
modern dance ensemble Fivefour's new work at Joyce
Soho on the weekend of May 10th through May 12th.

4-07:exclusiveOr, a duo
project consisting of Jeff Snyder and Sam Pluta on Buchla and Serge
modular synthesizers, has completed its debut album.

2-07: Jeff Snyder's duet for electric guitar and
accordion, Epicycles, was performed again by Eric Wubbels and
Matt Hough on March 19th, at Symphony Space, as part of the Wet Ink
2006-2007 season.

2-07: Jeff Snyder's duet for electric guitar and
accordion, Epicycles, was premeired by Eric Wubbels and Matt
Hough on March 2nd, at Juilliard for the Columbia Composers'
concert series.

9-06: Jeff Snyder's revised version of
Nomographs, written for the Timetable Percussion Trio, was premeired on
September 9th, 2006 at the Tenri Cultural Institute. A recording of the
piece is planned for the summer of 2007.

5-06: A piece by Jeff Snyder and Ryan Smith was used
for a video installation by Nora Stephens and Diana Carulli. The
project was presented in the Brookyn Public Library, main branch, at
Grand Army Plaza from May 17-June 25th.

2-06: Jeff Snyder debuted his new version of
Percussion, for computer-controlled cymbals on February
24th of 2006. The concert was part of the Wet Ink 2005/2006 season, and
featured an improvisation by Trio (with Christian Wolff, Larry Polanski
and Kui Dong) as the second set.

2-06: The new single for A Million Billion's Volcano
Season comes out on Exercise 1
Records in the UK on February 27th. Included is the
Scattershot remix of the title track.

2-06: Jeff Snyder's Dance Suite was premiered by
L'Ensemble
Portique, a group that performs Baroque chamber music alongside
contemporary pieces written for early instruments, on February
10th of 2006.

1-06: On January 5th, Jeff Snyder
performed a solo set of live electronics at an event for the poetry
journal Antennae at ACA Galleries in NYC.

12-05: Jeff Snyder and Ryan Smith
performed a duo electronics set as The Creations on
December 8th as part of the Wet Ink 05/06 concert
season.

11-05: Jeff Snyder's transcriptions of Bach chorales
for two saxophones, accordion, and two guitars were performed on the
November 20thWet Ink Concert.

10-05: Jeff Snyder is presenting some of his new sound
installation work at Dorkbot NYC on Wednesday, October
5th.

7-05: Jeff Snyder wrote music to accompany Lunch Date
by the modern dance duo FiveFour. It's being performed on July
18th, 25th, and 28th at Chashama.

6-05: On June 15th, 2005 Jeff Snyder's
newest concert work, Traceries, is premiered. Written for
flute, bass clarinet, violin, 'cello, accordion, electric guitar,
marimba and electronics, it is performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble at the Bowery Poetry
Club as part of the '04-'05 Wet Ink Season.

6-05: Jeff Snyder performs on electronics for several
pieces in the Counter)Induction concert
'Big Science'. June 3rd, 2005 at the Tenri Cultural
Institute.

4-05: The Nora
New Dance Company presented an evening of dance with music and a
sound installation by Jeff Snyder and Ryan Smith.

2-05: Jeff Snyder performed as Scattershot for a
benefit concert for the Nora New Dance Company held at the Llano Estacado. New songs were
brought out, including some that will land on the new EP.

1-05: Jeff Snyder and Eric Wubbels perform together as
'The Disembodied Head of Peter Ladefoged' at the John Cage Music
Circus, held at the Construction Company.

12-04: Jeff Snyder
and Eric Wubbels collaborated with Nora Stephens and the Nora New Dance
Company on a window performance at the new Chashama space. The
audience watched the piece through the window outside the building, and
heard the music through speakers outside.

11-04: Jeff Snyder performed, as Scattershot, a suite
of his own arrangements of the music from The Last Ninja, by Ben
Daglish, at the Free 103.9 Game Overture II at Office Ops.

10-04: Jeff Snyder's most recent concert piece,
Intervellum, (for electric guitar, rhodes piano, violin, and
'cello) is performed at the Tenri Cultural Institute on October 16th. A
recording is included on the music page.

9-04: Jeff Snyder's installationwith Gandalf
Gavan, Speak Low, is displayed for the Columbia University 250th
Anniversary Event in the entrance to the Low Library on Columbia's
campus on the weekend of September 30th. View some photographs of the
installation.

8-04: Jeff Snyder tours with the
Power-Ups as synthesist/arranger. Great audiences and great press
response! Interviews run in the Chicago
Tribune and Philadephia City
Paper, plus critic's choice in Minneapolis City Pages, and several
other independent weeklies...

5-03: Scattershot track "Extrasexual Behavior" is used
by Media Assassin Harry Allen as the opening theme music for his radio
program, Nonfiction. The show airs on Wednesdays, at 2:00PM on WBAI, New York City's
Pacifica station.

3-03: Jeff Snyder performs two
compositions(Retina, Priori II) and one improvisation at
Deadtech as part of the Decomposure series.

2-03:Natty Nation's
new album, "Inatty In Jah Music" is released, with two dub remixes by
Scattershot.

Here's an excerpt from a
review:

"The best surprises come
at the end of the track list with DJ Scattershot's languorous dub mixes
of 'Wise & Prudent' and 'Rasta Revolution.' His low-end doesn't
obliterate the rest of the music, yet it's just short of
teeth-rattling. He also brings snatches of horns, organ and other
keyboards in and out of the mix with a space alien's sense of astral
harmony." -The
Isthmus

6-02:Public Enemy's
new album, Revolverlution, is released. It includes a remix of "The
B-Side Wins Again" by Jeff Snyder and Ryan Smith. Chuck D called the
remix "Beyond anything describable... at the same time the most
incredible and possibly the worst sonic experience in some time".

Here are some mentions of
the Scattershot remix in reviews of "Revolverlution":

"The 'B-Side Wins Again'
remix, in particular, really stands out. The minimalist yet funky drum
track fades in and out, augmented by densely textured and frenzied
samples that perfectly complement Chuck D's riotous homage to b-sides.
Not many old-school acts could pull off such an audacious revision, but
Public Enemy have always been musically ahead of the game." - Pitchfork Media

"B Side Wins Again
(Scattershot Remix): This bizarre, banging mess of feedback and
battering, off-kilter beats sounds like an avante techno Def Jux
throwdown. Its tone changes constantly, and despite the unevenness in
the song’s sound, it’s as thrilling and strange as
anything the band [Public Enemy] has ever done." - Stylus
Magazine

12-02:
Scattershot's debut EP, "Extrasexual Behavior", is self-released. It
features guest performances by experimental guitarist Scott Fields,
members of the Youngblood Brass Band, and saxophonists John Keech
and Anders Svanoe, as well as the talents of drummers Rick Flowers and
Craig Walkner, bassist Todd Hill and guitarist Dan Venne.